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Oregonians deserve healthy, affordable, resilient buildings that run on clean energy.

This year Climate Solutions celebrates our 25th Anniversary. Has it really been that long?

Landmark climate leadership: WA invests in environmental justice

In this post, we’ll highlight some groundbreaking pieces unique to Washington’s law: environmental justice provisions that prioritize air pollution reductions in…

Clean Cars mean the West Coast can breathe easier

By 2035, every new car sold in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California will be powered by 100% clean energy.

Clean Fuel Standard coming to Washington State

Washington finalizes Clean Fuel Standard to reduce climate pollution, protect health, and benefit local economy with implementation beginning Jan 1, 2023

Clean tech's Mark Twain moment
by Chris Bast on January 13, 2014

The 60 Minutes piece was more than a case of bad reporting - it deliberately ignored the context within which clean tech operates: climate change.
We’re blushing. Thank you, Postcard Underground.
by Bobby Hayden on January 12, 2014

Over several weeks this past fall we received a flurry of very encouraging notes in the mail directed at our Solutions Stories.
60 Minutes’ clean tech bash-fest: hardly a moment of journalism, not a second of climate reality
by KC Golden on January 10, 2014

60 Minutes' mugging of the clean tech industry this week ignores the real story: the explosive growth in clean energy technologies, and the 97% success rate of federal clean energy loans.
Beaverton, Oregon does carbon math
by Elizabeth Willmott on December 23, 2013

When the opportunity recently arose to set a long-term community climate action goal, Beaverton sustainability officials wanted to do their homework. So they called the New Energy Cities team to help them figure out what it would take to make deep cuts in climate pollution community-wide.
It's beginning to look a lot like solar
by Beth Doglio on December 19, 2013

Making something happen that is part of the solution is refreshing, especially when I’ve spent so much of my time fighting the behemoth fossil fuel industry standing in the way of a cleaner, healthier future.